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Update to J5.2 stopped mail working

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Marvin_Martiano
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Update to J5.2 stopped mail working

Post by Marvin_Martiano » Tue Oct 29, 2024 3:43 pm

Hello,

I updated J5.1 to J5.2 and the mailer stopped working: Trying a test email on Administrator > Global configuration > Server, then PHPmail says "could not instantiate mail function", where Sendmail says "Could not execute: /usr/sbin/sendmail". I'm sure PHPmail worked minutes before, not just the <send test mail> function but a response to a new user registration.

I checked and PHP was 8.1 at my webhost (Hostinger), I updated it to 8.3. That gave me still PHP8.2 in the System Information, so I deleted the PHP-setting line from the (very old) .htaccess file; now System Info shows I have PHP8.3.8.

I've emptied all cache, logged in & out, and a few similar rituals to no effect.

Any suggestion where I should seek? An error log I can consult? Any help appreciated.

M.


[Third option: SMTPmail says nothing but no output gets sent; only when I try TLS auth on SMTP I get an error (which may lie on my side, wrong port or whatever).]

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Re: Update to J5.2 stopped mail working

Post by toivo » Wed Oct 30, 2024 12:15 am

Marvin_Martiano wrote: Tue Oct 29, 2024 3:43 pmSMTPmail says nothing but no output gets sent; only when I try TLS auth on SMTP I get an error (which may lie on my side, wrong port or whatever
Turn on the option Debug System in the Global Configuration to get a list of SMTP protocol requests and replies from the mail server. Follow the instruction in the tutorial How to debug SMTP mail in Joomla 4. Copy and paste the messages from the log file into your reply for advice.
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